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I just finished four years of running a corporate email server, and here are my thoughts on why I'd never do it again within the context of a young SME. Before I start: I'm not saying don't learn how to set up an email server, because there is definitely a…

This is actually an old post that was on my old blog. But people have been searching for it a lot and now they can't find it, so I'm reposting it. For the record, I don't think anyone should be doing new sites in CodeIgniter 2.x, but I know…

There have recently been several articles posted around the web on whether or not Facebook advertising is a good value for advertisers, given how many clicks and likes seem to come from fake accounts and botnets. But here's an advert I came across on Facebook this afternoon: This immediately struck…

This morning I fired up one Linode instance and one Digital Ocean instance of CentOS 6.5 to check if both were deploying with patched versions of OpenSSL. To my surprise, Linode is not: Digital Ocean was fine. So anyone on Linode, this would be a bad time to forget…

As if dealing with the Heartbleed exploit itself hasn't been bad enough, IT departments and personnel really need to gear up for the fallout about to hit them: At least a month of sustained avalanches of spam and phishing attempts. Crisis is of course the seed of opportunity, and in…